✞At that moment, St. Anthony raised his head and looked up to the sky and a mystery was revealed to him and he exalted his God saying, “O Saint Paul! May God Who brought me to you be praised and honored.” And St. Paul responded (as he knew through the grace of God), “O Abba Anthony! Welcome.” Afterwards, both joyously and praising their God conversed.
✞The Church has Saints which she considers as the beginners of many types of holy lives or callings. For example we can mention
*St. Andrew the First Apostle
*St. Stephen the First Martyr
*St. Paul the First Anchorite/Hermit and
*St. Anthony the First Monk.
✞St. Paul was born in Northern Egypt in the City of Alexandria in the beginning of the 3rd century. His parents were wealthy. And they bore the Saint and his elder brother Abba Peter. The parents of both Christian brothers died while they were still young. However, after they mourned their parents, they were not able to agree while dividing the fortune [that was left].
✞And the reason was because the elder Peter took all the good stuff and gave the cheap ones to the younger Paul. And for that reason they went to court to settle matters, but on the way they saw a funeral of a wealthy man.
✞And while they stood, a holy angel in the manner of a man said to Paul, “This man was wealthy. He departed after sinning against his Creator, Who gave this wealth to him. Now severe judgment awaits him.”
✞In that instant, the thought of the young Paul changed. He turned to his brother, said, “My brother! Let all the goods be yours” and fled from the area. And after he stayed at a burial place for three days without food in prayer, the Angel of God took him to a desert where people could not reach.
✞There, a spring came forth for him. Then, he started fasting, praying and prostrating. He lived for eighty years always receiving half a piece of bread at night from heaven and being given from the Eucharist by angels on Saturdays and Sundays. (Some sources say he lived in the desert for ninety years.) And he met with St. Anthony after all these.
✞And in the two days that St. Anthony stayed with him, St. Paul spoke many prophecies. And when he departed on this day, lions dug his grave. And St. Anthony buried him with honor. And the palm fiber tunic that he wore for eighty years raised a dead man.
✞✞✞Honor is worthy to the righteous, blessed, first anchorite St. Paul who is called the Father of all the Hermits and was like the angels.
✞✞✞ Abba Longinus✞✞✞
=>The Saint was a father that travelled from Cilicia to Syria and from Syria to Egypt in spiritual strife. He had served as the Abbot of Debre (The Monastery of) Zugag (El-Zugag) in the mid of the 5th century.
✞He departed on this day after raising the dead, keeping the faith and performing numerous miracles. And from the wondrous things he performed we will mention that at one time Satan fled in fear after seeing his monastic hood (koulla/qalansuwa).
✞ “When you weren’t there, he saw your hood
And Satan fled as he was frightened”
(Arke of the Ethiopian Synaxarium)
✞✞✞ May God bless us with their blessings.
✞✞✞ Annual feasts celebrated on the 2nd of Yekatit
1. St. Abba Paul the Anchorite (The Father of all Hermits)
2. St. Abba Longinus Abbot of the Monastery of Zugag
3. St. Thomas the Apostle
✞✞✞ Monthly Feasts
1. St. John the Baptist
2. St. Thaddeus the Apostle
3. St. Severus of Antioch
4. St. Job the Righteous
5. St. Abel the Righteous
6. Abba Heryakos of Behensa
✞✞✞ “that they might obtain a better resurrection: And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.”✞✞✞
Heb. 11: 35-38
✞✞✞ Salutations to God ✞✞✞
(Translated by Mhr. Esuendale Shemeles with the permission of Dn. Yordanos Abebe)
✞The Church has Saints which she considers as the beginners of many types of holy lives or callings. For example we can mention
*St. Andrew the First Apostle
*St. Stephen the First Martyr
*St. Paul the First Anchorite/Hermit and
*St. Anthony the First Monk.
✞St. Paul was born in Northern Egypt in the City of Alexandria in the beginning of the 3rd century. His parents were wealthy. And they bore the Saint and his elder brother Abba Peter. The parents of both Christian brothers died while they were still young. However, after they mourned their parents, they were not able to agree while dividing the fortune [that was left].
✞And the reason was because the elder Peter took all the good stuff and gave the cheap ones to the younger Paul. And for that reason they went to court to settle matters, but on the way they saw a funeral of a wealthy man.
✞And while they stood, a holy angel in the manner of a man said to Paul, “This man was wealthy. He departed after sinning against his Creator, Who gave this wealth to him. Now severe judgment awaits him.”
✞In that instant, the thought of the young Paul changed. He turned to his brother, said, “My brother! Let all the goods be yours” and fled from the area. And after he stayed at a burial place for three days without food in prayer, the Angel of God took him to a desert where people could not reach.
✞There, a spring came forth for him. Then, he started fasting, praying and prostrating. He lived for eighty years always receiving half a piece of bread at night from heaven and being given from the Eucharist by angels on Saturdays and Sundays. (Some sources say he lived in the desert for ninety years.) And he met with St. Anthony after all these.
✞And in the two days that St. Anthony stayed with him, St. Paul spoke many prophecies. And when he departed on this day, lions dug his grave. And St. Anthony buried him with honor. And the palm fiber tunic that he wore for eighty years raised a dead man.
✞✞✞Honor is worthy to the righteous, blessed, first anchorite St. Paul who is called the Father of all the Hermits and was like the angels.
✞✞✞ Abba Longinus✞✞✞
=>The Saint was a father that travelled from Cilicia to Syria and from Syria to Egypt in spiritual strife. He had served as the Abbot of Debre (The Monastery of) Zugag (El-Zugag) in the mid of the 5th century.
✞He departed on this day after raising the dead, keeping the faith and performing numerous miracles. And from the wondrous things he performed we will mention that at one time Satan fled in fear after seeing his monastic hood (koulla/qalansuwa).
✞ “When you weren’t there, he saw your hood
And Satan fled as he was frightened”
(Arke of the Ethiopian Synaxarium)
✞✞✞ May God bless us with their blessings.
✞✞✞ Annual feasts celebrated on the 2nd of Yekatit
1. St. Abba Paul the Anchorite (The Father of all Hermits)
2. St. Abba Longinus Abbot of the Monastery of Zugag
3. St. Thomas the Apostle
✞✞✞ Monthly Feasts
1. St. John the Baptist
2. St. Thaddeus the Apostle
3. St. Severus of Antioch
4. St. Job the Righteous
5. St. Abel the Righteous
6. Abba Heryakos of Behensa
✞✞✞ “that they might obtain a better resurrection: And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.”✞✞✞
Heb. 11: 35-38
✞✞✞ Salutations to God ✞✞✞
(Translated by Mhr. Esuendale Shemeles with the permission of Dn. Yordanos Abebe)